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Would have loved to roam those corridors. Reminds me of J.G. Ballard's The Concentration City. I'm especially intrigued by the image of the Tin Hau Temple, surrounded by buildings with light just breaking through the grate above. Imagine all of the other interstitial spaces in that web of buildings.
I had a chance to visit some of the barrios (favelas) in Brazil a few years back and one thing that struck me, like in these images, is how you can still live very clean and tidy even in such an unorganized and chaotic mess. It was so strange to walk down filthy alleys and pass by rooms with perfectly made beds and polished floors. But, like in Rio, I bet the stench was almost unbearable. One thing most of us don't appreciate is our access to fresh air. We think that roads are only for cars when in fact, they really help to air a city out as well. I can only imagine what the infrastructure of that place was like.